Saif Osmani

MA ARCHITECTURE & HISTORIC URBAN ENVIRONMENTS, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON

Recent changes in the built environment have meant that local communities are feeling increasingly polarised from their surroundings and from one another. My socially engaged arts practice operates between art and architecture and this Masters opportunity from Aziz Foundation will enable me to examine how certain groups with protected characteristics interpret their own cultural heritage in the context of a leading global city. Planning policies found in the new London Plan and area local plans do not accurately reflect London’s diverse communities and I would like to examine the challenges of participation in community co-design in creating future spaces.